Systems Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jan 2019
News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

dose them. And there’s a lot of infrastructure that needs to change around that, right? The traditional model is test in animals, test in humans. And you need a lot of animals and humans to test it. The idea of a single-patient clinical... View Details

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

GMAC Insurance, the wholly-owned auto insurance subsidiary of General Motors, formed through the merger of two smaller insurance firms, is at a strategic cross-roads. Progressive changed the competitive landscape with its superior pricing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

environmental damage and climate change over the last two centuries. The time has come for mainstream business history to incorporate the environmental impact of business in its agenda." Other research agenda topics identified by... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

01 Sep 2013
News

Who Are We?

information. We owe it to those who passed away in the disaster to upgrade our systems to help save lives in any future calamity." —GE AGRICULTURE John Whiteside Grass Farmer, Wolf Creek Farm For years, the résumé of John Whiteside (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

09 Jun 2017
News

Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China

their education system different from ours? What is their farming system that's different from ours, or similar to ours? So I always seek out to meet the locals. April White: So how did your love of travel... View Details

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

weapon. Introduced about thirty years ago, this system of very small loans to grassroots entrepreneurs such as street vendors, subsistence farmers, or home-based businesses has enjoyed widespread success. Indeed, the 2006 Nobel Peace... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

was directed at Latin America—about ten times Latin America's share of world FDI. Europe's much larger regional economy was pushed into second place as a destination for Spanish capital. Finally, it's important to remember that the definition of "region"... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

After nearly a decade of uninterrupted growth, strategic consulting firms are now facing one of their most challenging periods in memory, prompting widespread cutbacks in staff and changes to recruiting. How did these firms get to this... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

01 Dec 2008
News

Seth Klarman

capitalist system works the way it does is because there are cycles, and the cycles self-correct. With too much excess, eventually you get a downturn. So the explosion in securitized assets was a ticking time bomb? It’s not amazing that... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Jun 2007
News

Letters

fortunately, he stated that I was different. I asked Grove what it would take to change his mind, and his cryptic response was, “Try me.” This was a typical Grove two-minute meeting: enigmatic yet to the point. In an always busy day,... View Details

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

rates for loans in the banking system would decline to single digits. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307107 Multifactor Models Harvard Business School Exercise 207-056 Students evaluate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that require significant decision making on the part of those... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience

things that had to line up for us to live together. Once it did, it was a declaration that we would be staying in Boston for a few years”. Navigating career changes is not the only challenge couples have to tackle before coming to HBS.... View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About

effective leader is to be the one who listens intently, exhibits curiosity, and remains open to arguments that might change your point of view. These behaviors all require humility. We hope that during your time as students, you’ve become... View Details

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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

Concepts What Is a Platform? Value Creation and Capture Growth Factors Featured Exercise Articulate dynamic pricing’s benefits and drawbacks Define the most important characteristics of economies of scale Determine how platforms build trust into their View Details

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

entrepreneurs in these countries to build the future. And from an intellectual perspective, emerging markets provide a lab for scholars because everything we know about management needs to be reexamined in a new context: Are ideas about management still robust when you... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

allow executives to make investments. Turkey’s example provides a richer view: Yes, the change to a military regime undermines social capital and the rule of law. But, at the same time, the disruption is an opportunity for outsiders who... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2007
News

Ali Allawi

better future beckoned. But then as I entered the border town of Safwan, which is a few miles into Iraq from Kuwait, it became clear that this was not the country that I had left. It had changed in ways that were incredible. Safwan seemed... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; National Security and International Affairs; Government

15 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 15

competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details